Time to move on Kat

[Rik E Boy]

Come on Kat. Getting stuck into the Aussie skipper is not the way forward for you or Australian Cricket. You had a good career and there are plenty of runs left in you for the Bluebaggers. Let your bat do the talking.

regards,

REB

[Coach Bombay]

Come on Kat. Getting stuck into the Aussie skipper is not the way forward for you or Australian Cricket. You had a good career and there are plenty of runs left in you for the Bluebaggers. Let your bat do the talking.

regards,

REB

Agreed

[Pup]

Come on Kat. Getting stuck into the Aussie skipper is not the way forward for you or Australian Cricket. You had a good career and there are plenty of runs left in you for the Bluebaggers. Let your bat do the talking.

regards,

REB

Spot on.

Sour grapes is not the way to go. I thought he would know better given the amount of people he would have seen go down the same path in his career.

[Squids]

Seriously what is his problem?

There were 3 blokes in their mid 30's

Ponting
Hussey
Katich


Ponting is a legend of the game
and Hussey carried us in the Ashes so they were both safe.

Katich was injured....

[smac]

Hopefully he now lets it all slide away and we can remember his batting rather than his bitching.

But it's interesting to finally have the dressing room incident confirmed by one of the participants.

[Jim05]

I will stick up for Kat. Good on him for having a crack at them, still one of the best bats in the country. Should get a game ahead of half the guys in the Aussie side. He always shows heart which is more than can be said about the current skipper. Bring back the Kat

[Rik E Boy]

Seriously what is his problem?

There were 3 blokes in their mid 30's

Ponting
Hussey
Katich


Ponting is a legend of the game
and Hussey carried us in the Ashes so they were both safe.

Katich was injured....

His problem is that he's better than Hughes. I reckon he was stiff (Ponting gone for mine, I reckon he can't see the nut anymore) but I don't think he is doing himself any justice by carrying on. Seems to be a bitter bloke.

regards,

REB

[Rik E Boy]

I will stick up for Kat. Good on him for having a crack at them, still one of the best bats in the country. Should get a game ahead of half the guys in the Aussie side. He always shows heart which is more than can be said about the current skipper. Bring back the Kat

Agreed (about him being one of the best bats in the country) but speaking out about the current skipper is not the way to go. He should cop it sweet and get on with the game. If he racks up another season like he did two years ago and didn't whinge about Pup who knows where that might have led to. As it is now it no longer matters how many runs he's made because he has just confirmed Pup's opinion of him.

David Hookes and Dean Jones are two players who had more talent than Katich and also had something to say towards the end of their career and it didn't do them any good either. Big Kat fan but please...shut up and bat!

regards,

REB

[smac]

Seriously what is his problem?

There were 3 blokes in their mid 30's

Ponting
Hussey
Katich


Ponting is a legend of the game
and Hussey carried us in the Ashes so they were both safe.

Katich was injured....

His problem is that he's better than Hughes. I reckon he was stiff (Ponting gone for mine, I reckon he can't see the nut anymore) but I don't think he is doing himself any justice by carrying on. Seems to be a bitter bloke.

regards,

REB

A week ago he scored 63 against a Dale Steyn led Seth Efrica, in the afternoon of a day/night ODI that was rain affected. I reckon his eyes are fine.

His reflexes are more of a worry at the minute but he's got an Aussie summer left in him I reckon.

Agree 100% that he's better than Hughes, but one of the trio had to go and whichever way they went someone could feel hard done by.

[Media Park]

There were three men.

Bragley Hodge
Chris Rogers
Simon Katich.

At times when they could have allowed their bats to do the talking, they instead opened their mouths and blamed others for their lack of opportunity and treatment.

Hodge's time has now past, and he should have been a hard lesson learned for the others.

Katich now has a black mark against his name, and the age excuse, and need for generational change will see him gone.

Chris Rogers, once in the pecking order with Phil Hughes, is now all but gone...

[Rik E Boy]

Seriously what is his problem?

There were 3 blokes in their mid 30's

Ponting
Hussey
Katich


Ponting is a legend of the game
and Hussey carried us in the Ashes so they were both safe.

Katich was injured....

His problem is that he's better than Hughes. I reckon he was stiff (Ponting gone for mine, I reckon he can't see the nut anymore) but I don't think he is doing himself any justice by carrying on. Seems to be a bitter bloke.

regards,

REB

A week ago he scored 63 against a Dale Steyn led Seth Efrica, in the afternoon of a day/night ODI that was rain affected. I reckon his eyes are fine.

His reflexes are more of a worry at the minute but he's got an Aussie summer left in him I reckon.

Agree 100% that he's better than Hughes, but one of the trio had to go and whichever way they went someone could feel hard done by.

I'm convinced that a very proud man, who wears a hair piece rather than admit there's no snow on the roof is not seeing them as well or picking them up as well as he once did. In other words it's not the reflexes but having less time to decide what do when it comes to shot selection - after all he has no troubles with his reflexes in the field. Good scores against top bowling are not out of the question because Punter is one of the best bats Australia has ever had. In a one dayer you don't get so many balls at your scone but in test matches have a look at how Ponting plays the pull shot now..it's been getting him into a lot of trouble during the last three years. He's also starting to get sconned a lot. A strength has become a weakness. I stand by my Punter sight...er...slight.

regards,

REB

[mighty hounds]

Hopefully he now lets it all slide away and we can remember his batting rather than his bitching.

But it's interesting to finally have the dressing room incident confirmed by one of the participants.

Excuse my ignorance but what was the dressing room incident?

[smac]

In short, Pup wanted to dart off straight after a game to go on a hot date with Bingle, the Kat didn't like that idea and had him up against the wall in the rooms.

[Media Park]

Drunken knee trembler?

[smac]

It'll hit the hip pocket too, I imagine.

Simon Katich reported under Cricket Australia Code of Behaviour

Simon Katich has been reported under the Cricket Australia Code of Behaviour provisions relating to Detrimental Public Comment following comments made by Katich about captain Michael Clarke and CA.

CA Chief Executive James Sutherland said he had been surprised and disappointed to see Katich's comment made after new full-time national selector John Inverarity had said the selection door was not closed on future selection.

"CA emphatically refutes any suggestion that Michael Clarke influenced the independent selection panel's recommendations for the 2011-12 CA contract players' list, a list that did not include Katich," he said.

"The NSP made its recommendations based on its independent assessment of Australian cricket's player needs for the next 12 months and the suggestions made by Katich are completely erroneous, inappropriate and unfair to Clarke, the selectors and to CA.

"Without compromising my confidential understanding of the selectors' confidential thinking, I can state their recommendations were completely independent of outside influence.

"I was particularly disappointed at the comments yesterday after the discussions we had with Katich in mid-2011 on inappropriate public comments he had made then," Mr Sutherland said.

He noted the normal CA process when a player is dropped is for the Chairman of Selectors to talk with the player, for the player's state association to be advised before public announcement so they can provide support if needed, and for subsequent CA follow up - a process that had been accurately followed in Katich's case. In Simon's case, this included follow up discussion with Michael Brown.

Details of the hearing will be published in the next few days.

Information released by: Peter Young General Manager Public Affairs, Cricket Australia.

[Media Park]

http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/c ... 38384.html

[The Dark Knight]

In short, Pup wanted to dart off straight after a game to go on a hot date with Bingle, the Kat didn't like that idea and had him up against the wall in the rooms.

I reckon Kat was only trying to enforce the old saying, Bro's before Hoe's.

[The Sleeping Giant]

I'm on Kat's side. I don't think he said anything damaging. Clarke is a wanker.

[Jim05]

I'm on Kat's side. I don't think he said anything damaging. Clarke is a wanker.

Spot on, Im with you

[RustyCage]

Name one cricketer who has benefited from shooting his mouth off about the selectors?